Educating future scholars, policy-makers and practitioners to generate knowledge and provide thought leadership for a sustainable future.

National Earth Olympiad 2026

Bangladesh is a living delta shaped by rivers, sediments, culture, and a rich biodiversity. For centuries, its fertile floodplains, wetlands, forests, and river systems supported rich ecosystems and thriving communities. Today, however, visible fractures run through this delta: polluted rivers, degraded wetlands, declining biodiversity, contaminated water, toxic landfills, and communities pushed to the margins by environmental collapse. These are not isolated incidents. They are the outcome of decades of extractive and short-sighted development choices that have weakened the very ecological systems that once sustained life. Like all fault lines, its cracks need to be sealed through long-term social, political, and scientific movement. 

 

This generation of young thinkers, builders, and leaders holds the potential to reimagine Bangladesh’s relationship with nature and development. By nurturing scientific understanding alongside environmental responsibility, the National Earth Olympiad 2026 seeks to inspire a future in which learning directly contributes to ecological restoration and social well-being.

 

Join NEO 2026 and become part of a growing movement of young people using E-STEM to heal, restore, and renew our shared planet.

“Our house is on fire!” We homo sapiens are facing the greatest challenge right now: Ecological crisis and climate emergency. IPCC warns that we are less than 12 years away from not being able to undo our mistakes. Bangladesh will be one of the first countries to confront the adverse effects of climate change. Our soil, water and air are polluted, forests and biodiversity diminished, natural resources are degraded.


While our leadership is failing our future, we cannot wait to act. We are at a time in history where our empowered youth must speak out and act. We believe a new generation of enlightened, conscious, and committed young citizens with global mindset and actions can bring back the ecological balance in nature for harmonious development of human civilization and create a more just, fair, sustainable, and resilient world.

What is NEO

National Earth Olympiad (NEO) is an education and knowledge movement to mainstream earth and environmental science education in Bangladesh. NEO aims to educate, inspire, and nurture future scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to generate necessary knowledge and provide thought leadership for a more just, fair and sustainable Bangladesh and world. Through a national level Olympiad competition that takes place across Bangladesh, NEO instills curiosity and develops consciousness about ongoing environmental concerns among the younger generation and nurtures their talents to help them become agents of positive change in the society.

Knowledge

NEO impart earth and environmental science knowledge

Leadership

Green Day Training (GDT) helps to develop leadership skills and install motivation to take environmental action

Impact

NEO engages alumni in action projects in their communities

NEO Journey

Previous NEOs

Impact of NEOs

Launched in 2012, NEO took place 12 times, engaging 27,000+ students and establishing contacts with 800+ schools across 8 divisions in Bangladesh. The Olympiad consists of divisional round and national round exams, and a specially designed environmental leadership workshop popularly known as GDT or Green Day Training. Through GDT, we have trained 2800+ students on environmental leadership till today.

 

Until now, our participants have earned 5 gold, 6 silver medals and 26 bronze medals in the International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO). 

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